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Accessible by float plane from Winnipeg and Lac du Bonnet, the Atikaki Provincial Wilderness Park has half a dozen holiday cottages and fishing lodges dotted across some of the finest Canadian Shield scenery in the province. There are no campsites or roads through the park, but the rough gravel track that makes up most of Route 304 does reach Wallace Lake, at the park's southern tip, via the east shore of Lake Winnipeg or Nopiming Park's Route 314. The Atikaki is crisscrossed by canoe routes that give glimpses of the region's ancient pictograph sites, but they all include difficult white-water stretches that should only be attempted by experienced canoeists. The park's more popular canoe routes include the dramatic journey down the Bloodvein River to Lake Winnipeg, its rapids, falls and wild twistings balanced by peaceful drifts past quiet lakes and wild-rice marshes, and the Kautunigan Route , a 500-kilometre excursion that starts at Wallace Lake and threads its way to the mouth of the Berens River on Lake Winnipeg, well to the north of the park. Both routes pass stands of white birch, black spruce, jack pine, elm, oak and maple, and you may catch sight of moose, timber wolves, coyotes and black bears. Maps are available from Manitoba Conservation, Land Information Centre, Map Sales, 1007 Century St, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3H OW4 (tel 945-6666 or 1-877/627-7226); file trip plans with the Lac du Bonnet Natural Resource Office, Box 850, Lac du Bonnet (tel 345-1454). Alternatively, several of the outfitters in Winnipeg and Lac du Bonnet organize guided excursions; details are available from the Manitoba Natural Resources Office, 200 Saulteaux Crescent, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3J 3W3 (tel 945-6784 or 1-800/214-6497). To obtain information on canoe routes, call the Manitoba Recreational Canoeing Association (tel 925-5078). Three-, five- and ten-day canoeing and white-water rafting excursions in the park are offered by Wilderness Odysseys (tel 703/922-0823 or 1-800/443-6199). An invaluable walking guide is Ruth Marr's The Manitoba Walking and Hiking Guide , which details more than two hundred routes of varying degrees of difficulty.
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